Big Empty Bed

Humid, summery, gray and foggy most of the mornings lately.

We just got back from a wonderful weekend in Denver with Greg --- what a great time!

I started planting the area that the Manns created along the edge of the driveway.  It's a big strip bed and the pots show where the transplanted 'Tardiva' hydrangeas will go.

I dug up and moved two of the larger rhus aromatica plants (Low Gro sumacs).  One looks good, the other is clearly distressed, very brown and wilting!  Yikes.  I do have more small rhus plants on order.

this one transplanted okay

this one looks crispy and wilted

I planted the rooted stem that Cyndy from Gardening Asylum gave me.  She dug it out of her garden before she moved, stuck it in some gravel, and it took!  This will be a doublefile viburnum, V. plicatum tomentosum 'Mariesii'.

Still going strong in the very end of September: the plumbago towers. Wow.

Also very nice at this time of year: the hydrangea blooms.

And the grasses --- this is miscanthus 'Zebrina by the garage door.